Definition: 1. To provide somebody with a room or place to sleep, live or sit. 2. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose. 3. Provide housing for. 4. Make compatible with.
Use 'accommodate' in a sentence:
1. It can accommodate 15,000 people.
2. The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.
3. .a hotel built to accommodate guests for the wedding of King Alfonso.
4. Our proposal tries to accommodate the special needs of minority groups.
5. The Union has made every possible effort to accommodate the management.
6. He has never put an arm around his wife to accommodate photographers.
7. Some students were accommodated in homes nearby.
8. Leeds Prison is reported to have almost double the number of prisoners it's designed to accommodate.
9. Only galaxies with a spherical bulge—like component appear to accommodate supermassive black holes.
10. The runway of this airport is undergoing expansion to accommodate large planes.
11. Your eyes will accommodate to the darkness after a while.
12. Some students find it hard to accommodate themselves to the new environment.
13. The school in Poldown was not big enough to accommodate all the children.
14. It was the need to accommodate employees with young children that motivated accountancy firm Wright Vigar to begin promoting teleworking recently.
15. While most old universities have modernised radically to accommodate their growing populations, Oxford has managed to expand while still preserving its traditional structure.
16. The ballroom can accommodate 400 people.
17. This restaurant can accommodate two hundred people at a time.
18. The idea that the United States could harmoniously accommodate all was a fiction.
19. The delegates were accommodated at the guest house.
20. The new OS can accommodate high-resolution colour screens of 320 by 320 pixels.
21. The hotel can accommodate up to 500 guests.
22. This hotel can accommodate 300 visitors.
23. The food is excellent and the room is large enough to accommodate us.
24. This big room can accommodate six beds.
25. You should soon accommodate yourself to the new circumstance.
26. The best utensil for steaming is a wok because its width easily accommodates a whole fish.
27. I quickly needed to accommodate to the new schedule.
28. To accommodate more workers, more homes and stores will be needed.
29. The swimming pool with large extent can accommodate over eight people at the same time.
30. We've made every effort to accommodate your point of view.
31. During my first month, it was difficult to accommodate to the Americans manners and finish my assignments.
32. The CD-ROMs will accommodate the works of all English poets from 600 to 1900.
33. Parents must prepare for new relationship with their children and attempt to accommodate their individual needs and feelings.
34. The hotel can accommodate 500 guests.
35. To accommodate this unprecedented situation, the House of Windsor created a special title for him: the Duke of Windsor.
36. Each country has its norms and heritage that you should try to accommodate.
37. The eye can accommodate itself to seeing objects at different distances.
38. I have accommodated the press a great deal, giving numerous interviews.
39. Our emergency plan was designed to accommodate all emergency situations.
40. The 100 or so flats subdivided into cage homes are estimated to accommodate 5,000 people.
41. The roads are built to accommodate gradual temperature changes.
42. Find students from different parts of the country, record them talking to each other in different combinations, report on how they accommodate their speech or not, that kind of thing.
43. Norman Rockwell, a 20th-century artist, never painted Boy Swiping Finger on Screen, and our own vision of a perfect childhood has never been adjusted to accommodate that now-common scene.
44. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another three billion people.
45. There is usually room to accommodate up to 80 visitors.
46. He bought a huge house to accommodate his library.
47. The island was used to accommodate child refugees.
48. "You'll want an iPad just so you can wear this" is the slogan for one of the new lab coats designed with large pockets to accommodate tablet computers.
49. Others argue that more bus routes should be opened up because buses accommodate more passengers.
50. Over 70 minutes of music can be accommodated on one CD.
51. The concept of civilisation has to be able to accommodate such changes.
52. The hotel can accommodate 600 guests.
53. We have completed a pier to accommodate oceangoing freighters.
54. The school was not big enough to accommodate all the children.
55. She walked slowly to accommodate herself to his pace.
56. The way that American history is taught may change in order to accommodate some more of those cultures.
57. She had to accommodate to a new job.
58. I needed to accommodate to the new schedule.
59. The library can accommodate around 100 children, some of whom come to do their homework after school or to read in the evenings.
60. Students are accommodated in homes nearby.
61. This is to accommodate different tyre sizes and overall gearing.
62. Prior to assembly, grooves were made in the shelf, base, and sides to accommodate the back panel.
63. He's already altered several of the proposals in his economic plan to accommodate demands of special interests.
64. Some animal and plant species cannot accommodate to the rapidly changing conditions.
65. A new office block was built to accommodate the overflow of staff.
